Rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface produce "dark oxygen," and mining these minerals could cause potentially harmful changes to the marine ecosystem, according to new ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

“In the bigger picture, this is just one of many processes in the deep sea that we’re only now discovering,” says Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

Deep-sea mining promises critical minerals for the energy transition without the problems of mining on land. It also promises ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

CEO of The Metals Company holds a nodule brought up from the sea floor. ... Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times—Getty Images. by . ... Canadian deep-sea mining firm and global leader in the field, ...

Greenpeace activists protest on the opening morning of the annual Deep Sea Mining Summit on April 17, 2024 in London, England. Credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe for Greenpeace via Getty Images ...

In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...